Review | A French Lucie de Lammermoor Triumphs at Opéra Comique
With Opéra-Comique’s new production of Lucie de Lammermoor—the little-known French version of Donizetti’s most famous work—a rarity has returned to the Parisian stage not as…
Browsing: Concert Reviews
Review | For Philip Glass and Ballet BC, from Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber
The stage was bustling, with 16 Ballet BC company artists and four emerging artists dancing their hearts out to the warmth of live music played,…
Review | Opéra de Montréal’s Carmen Features Strong Singing
With high anticipation, Montrealers have been waiting for years to hear Montreal native, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb portray Carmen in a full production of Bizet’s best…
Review | Radical Trad Werther at the COC
It’s been 34 years since the Canadian Opera Company last presented Massenet’s Werther. While perhaps not in the top 10 of most–produced operas, it isn’t…
Review | The Women Who Knew Too Much: Lepage’s Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung returns to COC
On the opening night of the Canadian Opera Company’s pairing of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts…
Review | OSM’s Rite of Spring & Bruce Liu’s Tchaikovsky
As the weather in Montreal starts to warm again, Rafael Payare and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal hailed the return of spring with some fitting Stravinsky…
Review | Comic Carnevale in Toronto Operetta Theatre’s A Night in Venice
Toronto Operetta Theatre closed their season with Johann Strauss’s 1883 operetta A Night in Venice. Set in Venice during carnival season, it revolves around plot…
Review | Alan Menken: Stories from the King of Disney Music
For those like me who grew up obsessing over Disney movies and music, A Whole New World of Alan Menken—the show written and performed by…
Review | Drama Shines Through Baroque Intrusions in Opera Atelier’s Pelléas et Mélisande
It’s no secret that Opera Atelier has wanted to present Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande for many decades, and finally, the results were unveiled last week…
Review | Stephanie Lake’s Happiness Manifesto for Dance and Drum
The concept is straightforward. Bring together nine dancers and nine drummers, and put them all on stage to do what they clearly love: making dance…
